Need advice from those who have had coins certified,what is the best way to go about getting coins certified? who is the cheapest and still yet reputable,and is it cheaper to have more than one done at a time? thanks for you input
Posted 03/11/2013 11:22 am
In my opinion the retail value should be considered prior to certification as I have seen coins valued at $5.00 in PCGS holders which should have never been in a slab.
If your coin/coins are in the $500.00 and above price range, you may want to use PCGS or NGC if you don't mind the extra certification fees.
In the early days of TPG certification I would use both PCI and SEGS (2000 to 2005) then switched over to ANACS, and most cross-overs from both SEGS & PCI did come back in the same grade ANACS holders...
Also, I used to share a spot with another dealer in NY & NJ in the late 90's to around 2002 and most dealers on the bourse floor would carry a supply of TPG certified coins graded by PCI & SEGS back then and never received nowhere near the negative attention they do today on the internet.
As a side note, many here post replies that they will never consider purchasing (or submitting) coins to anyone other then PCGS and NGC as they are the "MOST ☼ TRUSTED" in the TPG industry, and with that said, I thought I would share a recent consumer post on ANACS facebook page asking why ANACS returned some of his coin as being cleaned, and cracked them out and then sent to PCGS for grading, receiving his ANACS "cleaned" coins in PCGS slabs with no cleaning mentioned on their holder. [this tells me ANACS will place "CLEANED" on their holder in a heart beat], and sadly I know this all to well.
The f/book comment is below, and I did delete his name for privacy and it can be found on ANACS facebook page for those to verify.
☼f/book name omitted for privacy☼ "Cleaned" Is the most common word that ANACS puts on a slab. I sent in a $2.50 Indian that might would fetch an AU58 on a good day and it came back MS64 "Cleaned". Also sent an AU50 $5 gold in at the same time. Yeah, you guessed it, AU50 "Cleaned". Cracked them out and sent them to PCGS and they came in at AU58 and AU53, NOT CLEANED!!!! I will never ever sent another coin to this group (ANACS) of hacks ever again!!
January 19 at 2:43pm · Like..
Anacs Coin Grading ☼thread reply☼ ANACS welcomes submitters to return any certified coins for review. If an error was made, we will happily make the correction. There is no charge for this service.
January 21 at 6:43pm · Like
My Dealer badge from 2001 at Westchester, NY
